Tag: Oscar
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The Ten Rules of Techno
“You’ve invented educational techno” goes the first comment on this video, and pretty much sums it up, Oscar from Underdog goes through the rules in under 5 minutes with a banging acid track. I wish all music lessons were this much fun! Video makes me think oddly of Adventures in Success by Will Powers…and the…
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The Count Sings Gogol Bordello
An amazingly accurate edit of The Count from Sesame Street singing ‘Start Wearing Purple’ from Gogol Bordello. Works perfectly, and I know as someone who has created a few of these how much work goes into it! And Happy 50th Sesame Street – and RIP Caroll Spinney who was the puppeteer and voice for Big…
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Never Forget: How to Survive A Plague
In the Oscars there’s a interesting nomination hidden away – the AIDS documentary ‘How to Survive A Plague’ by David France. Covering the period where governments worldwide were dismissing it as a ‘gay’ problem and not really bothered about what happens to them (very wrong on both counts; like other epidemics these things don’t self…
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the BLEEP of the Count
I love the Count, was my favourite Sesame St character, closely followed by my childhood sartorial guide Oscar. And to add rudeness to my favourite Count tune (it’s got Polka in it, and DJNoNo made a drum and bass version of it once) and as they say, it’s made of WIN! Or should that be…
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Bhangra Bootay
As you might have guessed I tend to avoid hype and spam, I prefer to discover the new on my own rather than follow the crowd – the John Peel approach of avoiding what the industry or received opinion says and making up your own mind. Sadly that means that sometimes you miss stuff, as…